With all due respect to the Bloggercon folks, a $500 entrance fee is a lot of money. Paying the frieght of prosperous speakers and Ivy League students isn't really that attractive. Space, A/V equipment, etc is already available at the school. Also, I have been to Harvard conferences before and never paid a dime. [John Robb's… Continue reading Bloggercon
Month: August 2003
Werner Vogel
Werner Vogel has developed an interesting way to evaluate conferences. I posted some thoughts in the comments section. I think this could be turned into a microbusiness. This is in the same vein as the evalution model I worked up at Gomez to help people find the online brokers and banks that best fit their… Continue reading Werner Vogel
Information Pollution
Useit.Com: Information Pollution. Each little piece of useless chatter is relatively innocent, and only robs us of a few seconds. The cumulative effect, however, is much worse: we assume that most communication is equally useless and tune it out, thus missing important information that's sometimes embedded in the mess. [Tomalak's Realm]
The Rebuke
The Rebuke. This article from The Kansas City Star has been making the rounds, and it deserves the attention. It's a point-by-point rebuke of the main charges in Powell's UN speech regarding the call for war on Iraq…. [Democrats WatchBlog] I think that should be rebuttal.
US admits it used napalm bombs in Iraq
US admits it used napalm bombs in Iraq American pilots dropped the controversial incendiary agent napalm on Iraqi troops during the advance on Baghdad. The attacks caused massive fireballs that obliterated several Iraqi positions. The Pentagon denied using napalm at the time, but Marine pilots and their commanders have confirmed that they used an upgraded… Continue reading US admits it used napalm bombs in Iraq
2004 Election Issues (Public Debt)
2004 Election Issues (Public Debt). As of August 2, 2003 at 03:57:28 AM GMT, every man, woman and child in America owes the U.S. government (on average) $23,158.33 in taxes. The total amount of this public debt, as of the time quoted above, is estimated , is estimated at $6 trillion, 738 billion, 941 million, 60… Continue reading 2004 Election Issues (Public Debt)
Stealing the Internet
Stealing the Internet. The crackdown by the music industry on illegal downloading tells just part of the story. Even with the dot-com bust, the digital boom is here, as high-speed connections, faster processors and new wireless devices increasingly become part of life. But the thousands of lawsuits are not just about ensuring record companies and… Continue reading Stealing the Internet
What Makes A Good Legal Weblog?
What Makes A Good Legal Weblog?. Four factors are on The LitiGator's list: frequent updates, entertainment value, links to valuable substantive information and focus. Right on target. I particularly agree with the observation “The best, most widely-read, and most informative law-related logs are those which are focused on one area of interest.” There is more than one… Continue reading What Makes A Good Legal Weblog?
Time Investment of Blog vs. Conventional Web Site
Time Investment of Blog vs. Conventional Web Site. A potential lawyer-blogger writes to ask: “Does it take you much longer to keep up your blog than a Web site?” While it is much, much easier to update a blog than a conventional web site, in my experience you wind up spending more time working on a blog. Because… Continue reading Time Investment of Blog vs. Conventional Web Site
Mighell & Pacifici On Virtual Communities/Blogs
Mighell & Pacifici On Virtual Communities/Blogs. Tom Mighell & Sabrina Pacifici's presentation from ABA Techshow 2003 is available at LLRX.com. It is an MS PowerPoint slide show converted to PDF (about 4 Mb). One of their more interesting suggestions is that web logs make good internal tools for law firms to discuss cases, evidentiary issues and so… Continue reading Mighell & Pacifici On Virtual Communities/Blogs